Dear Juno, or any other teen in the same situation, I am currently a 17 year old high school student attending Foothill Technology. I have recently watched your movie and I wanted to write to you about your situation and my feelings on your choices. I think that being pregnant in high school was probably not an ideal situation that you wanted for yourself or that you should have been in in the first place. I know that it must have been hard to constantly know that people were talking about you both behind your back and to your face while dealing with the emotional roller coaster involved with your pregnancy. However, I can't help but say that you did put yourself into this situation and you knew what the results of that night could could be. So I can't be sorry that you didn't get to experience the joys of being a mother and the shaming that you received for you choices, but I am sorry that you had to be in that situation in the first place. On the other hand, I am proud of you because you were able to make the mature decision in keeping the baby and giving that new life to Vanessa. She deserved it. Now, if I did find myself in a similar situation (in which I know that I wouldn't be), I, like you, would not be able to abort the baby, or give it up for adoption. Instead, I would raise that child as a teenager and accept the idea that my life is no longer my life alone. This wouldn't be just because they have finger nails. This decision would be based entirely on my belief that the baby should be raised by the parents because I have witnessed what the result could be if there not. I think in my case, if it were to happen (in which I would not), I think that the baby would be raised on strong biblical principle and love, and it would know that someone loved them enough and believed in them enough, to accept the responsibility of caring for them for the rest of their lives. I hope that you will take these words to heart and understand that I appreciate that you at least cared who your child and did not abort him as some people have. I hope the next time you are in that you are in that situation that its on your own terms as you dad stated, but if its not, just remember that there are always other options. Sincerely, Arieanna :)
I am currently a 17 year old high school student attending Foothill Technology. I have recently watched your movie and I wanted to write to you about your situation and my feelings on your choices. I think that being pregnant in high school was probably not an ideal situation that you wanted for yourself or that you should have been in in the first place. I know that it must have been hard to constantly know that people were talking about you both behind your back and to your face while dealing with the emotional roller coaster involved with your pregnancy. However, I can't help but say that you did put yourself into this situation and you knew what the results of that night could could be. So I can't be sorry that you didn't get to experience the joys of being a mother and the shaming that you received for you choices, but I am sorry that you had to be in that situation in the first place. On the other hand, I am proud of you because you were able to make the mature decision in keeping the baby and giving that new life to Vanessa. She deserved it. Now, if I did find myself in a similar situation (in which I know that I wouldn't be), I, like you, would not be able to abort the baby, or give it up for adoption. Instead, I would raise that child as a teenager and accept the idea that my life is no longer my life alone. This wouldn't be just because they have finger nails. This decision would be based entirely on my belief that the baby should be raised by the parents because I have witnessed what the result could be if there not. I think in my case, if it were to happen (in which I would not), I think that the baby would be raised on strong biblical principle and love, and it would know that someone loved them enough and believed in them enough, to accept the responsibility of caring for them for the rest of their lives. I hope that you will take these words to heart and understand that I appreciate that you at least cared who your child and did not abort him as some people have. I hope the next time you are in that you are in that situation that its on your own terms as you dad stated, but if its not, just remember that there are always other options.
Sincerely,
Arieanna :)